40 ttught thenl excellent French, s611 sail, as they always h;1ve, at the Pequot Yacht Cluh.. in Suuthport. The fa111ily still lives in a capacious.. elegantly fur- nished Tudor house surrounded hv care ' fuIIy tended lawns and English gardens, and ...f\Jl rs. Rudkin still works as hard as she always has. She says she thrives on \vork and has ever SInce she graduated, "- as valedictorian, from public high school in Flushing, where her fal11ily l110ved after the death of her grandl11other. Frol11 high school, she 1t11nledi-ately went . tò work ås a bookkeeper in a Flushing bank. "The hank had only ten el11- ployees, and untIl I cal11e along, it had never hired a w0111an," lI s. Rudkin says. "There were just three of us in the bookkeeping depart111ent-two eld- erly gentle111en, who wore alpaca jack- ets and sleeve garters, and this up- start redhead. The books vv-ere too heavy fur l11e to carry, so the old gen- t1el11en haulèd thel11 out of the vault and put thel11 on a high bench every morn- ing, and I sat there an day on a stool making entries. .L.\t the end of the day, you had to add up the debits and credits-the bank didn't have an adding Inachine-and if they didn't balance, .) ou had to sit there until you found the 111istake. I re111C111her several tÌ111es, vv-hen I had to stay late, 111)' lTIother call1e down with her knitting to sit with 111e. I was a bookkeeper for two years, and then I was l11ade a teller. I liked thaL I t gave l11e a chance to talk with people. I think the experience at the hank \rvas invaluable. It taught l11e accuracy and responsibilitj and gave ll1e a good back- ground for business. Of course, figures "- have always been easy for me. Right this l11inute, I can go out to Cliff-he's the comptroller-clnd say 'What's t4e cash balance?' and I can tell offhand if it's correct. The average womari, of course, can't even balance her check- hook." After four years at the hank, 1\;lrs. Rudkin becal11e, in 1919, what she 11 " , " f h ca s a custol11er s WOl11an or t e now dissolved brokerage firl11 of :\1cClure, Jones & Cn., where she l11et Mr. Rud- kin, who was one of the partners. 'T'he \rvere ll1arried in 1923. The,' lived in New York until 1928, when 1\;1 r. R ud- kin bough t a large tract of land near Fairheld and built a house. He and his fal11ily moved in the following year. 1 rs. Rudkin has been so busy rearing a fal11ily and a business that she hasn't had a chance to develop l11uch interest in clothe -she favors green and brown tweed suits and is still wearing an evening wrap she bought in 1926--:- or to beco111e accol11plished at bridge, goÌf, and cocktail parties, all of which she regards as rather a vv-aste of till1e. She once kept track of the hours her hus- hand and sons devoted to golf during a typical week and then confronted thel11 wjth the total, which canle to twenty- two hours. "As anybody can see, I'm thr l11eanest wife and l110ther in the world," she says, s111iling. .\/Irs. .R udkin spends fi ve days a week at her bakery, and though she thorough- ly enj() Ts her work, she looks forward to Saturdays, when she has a chance to do S0111e hOl11e baking. For 1110re than a ) ear, she has had no conk or nther full- till1e servants in the house. ..t1. Finnish couple she el11ployed shortly before she cut down on servants had to he dis- l11issed because they kept getting into the lIquor, even though, as far as anyone knows, they were eating no bread other than Pepperidge Farll1. Except for the , ::t: i ,:",,->:,,;, ' : :Æ):tf :"14J: lÁ ø.;jk; .,:,:j ",... ' i ' :::: ;F"::':: 1: ; Ã::; i ':: \':: : ":'.. :,. "W 'Y<'W':":,-::' o. "'. .; ::. .. .. .:. . ,', i' ;". :/t ;:.. ,f:.,::' :' ".:- ... ': t. .".:"-=;:." -=-.::...... assistance of a cleaning VV-Ol11an who COll1es in two days a week, Mrs. Rudkin does her own housevv-ork and cooking. During the week, she prepares l11eals for only her husband and herself; two of their sons are at Yale, and the third, who works in the New York office of W. R. Grace & Co., lives with his wife in a wing of the house that has jts own kitchen. On weekends, vv-hen the fal11ilv is' usual1y at hOl11e.. Mrs. Rudkin cooks for all hands and hakes SOl11e pies (lemon chiffon or covered apple) and cakes (devi],s food with white icing or yellow layer with coconut icing), an as- signl11ent she handles with efficiency a] d good cheer. "I can v/hip up a cak"e . fif . " h " I '. d In teen ll11nutt::s, s e says. ve tIme myself. .l.\nd it doesn't take me l110re than forty l11inutes, when I use the pressure cooker, to prepare a l:1mb-stew it! ." "..;;:. . , / :-:':'. ;t1; ! :... . :,',<,::, llØ . ' , :.:......: :=:.: ..... .:...... ... .1'..... ,' t, )' .....,/0:. <.1 :. '